[PATCH] Suppress a warning about mismatched parameter in format string (expected long int, provided unsigned int).

Zephaniah E. Hull warp at aehallh.com
Wed Apr 25 03:17:22 PDT 2007


On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 03:06:27AM +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> -            xf86Msg(X_ERROR, "Read error: %s (%d, %d != %ld)\n",
> +            xf86Msg(X_ERROR, "Read error: %s (%d, %d != %u)\n",
>  		    strerror(errno), errno, len, sizeof (ev));

See, this is one of those funky cases where fixing the warning is the
wrong answer.

See, on x86 sizeof returns an int, on amd64 sizeof returns a long, which
makes it slightly harder to avoid a warning on all systems without using
a cast.

Zephaniah E. Hull.

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